Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Lars Clausen wrote:

> It would indeed have to happen at a very different level.  Both 
> approaches have their uses, I'd say the transparent color would be 
> easier to fit into the current UI, as it doesn't require an extra toggle 
> button for all manner of things, and it's probably also easier to code.
>
> For clarity, then: "transparent" means a color setting, while 
> "undisplayed" means that the (part of the) object is not considered to 
> exist for any calculations at all, including bounding box, diagram 
> extends, parenting etc.

This is how I would also interpret 'transparent' v.s. 'undisplayed'.

/Christian

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